Downtown Bend: Writers Reading - Kim Fu,"The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore" | |
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Event Type: Adult Program Age Group(s): Adult Date: 10/5/2019 Start Time: 2:00 PM End Time: 3:00 PM Description: Kim Fu reads from "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore."
Library: Downtown Bend Public LibraryAward-winning author Kim Fu reads from her most recent novel, "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore," about five young girls who become stranded on a kayaking trip in the Pacific Northwest, and the haunted and complex women they grow up to become. Reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books available for purchase. Kim Fu will be hosting a writing workshop on the character-first model of fiction in the Brooks Room prior to the reading, from 11 AM-12:30 PM on Saturday, October 5. Kim Fu is the author of two novels and a collection of poetry, most recently "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore," which was called "propulsive" and "skillful" by the New York Times. Her debut "For Today I Am a Boy" won the Edmund White Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, among others. Her writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, Hazlitt, and the Times Literary Supplement. Fu lives in Seattle, Washington and is an instructor-advisor at the Humber School for Writers. *cr* *fbl* Location: Brooks Room Contact: Paige M. Ferro Contact Number: 541-312-1063 Presenter: Kim Fu Link: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore |